Books in the New Century Theology S. series

Keith Pecklers aims to give theologians, liturgists, priests and laity of all denominations a new sense of the theology of liturgy. Grounded in the theology of the Mystical Body of Christ, the author calls for full and active liturgical participation necessarily including social responsibility.

This theological investigation explores the significance of woman in the Christian tradition from various perspectives. It is written as an open-ended quest for meaning in the form of a "theopoetics" rather than as a systematically developed argument.

Examines the ambiguous role played by the concept of power in Christian theology. This work argues that it is not credible to attempt to dissociate Christian faith from the phenomena of power in their entirety. It holds that human beings are enmeshed in a deeply ambiguous context, a world of overlapping and intersecting powers.

Donna Orsuto examines the Hebrew Scriptures and shows how the concept of holiness is intimately intertwined with the idea of God, who is "Wholly Other" and transcendent, and yet paradoxically calls us into intimacy. She offers a contemporary Christian understanding of holiness.

Mary is often seen as having a very small part to play in the drama of salvation and creation. Boss argues that Christian theology should conceive of the created order as sacred in the highest degree, and that this understanding is already implicit in traditions of Marian doctrine and devotion.

Aiming to present an accessible discussion of theology in relation to issues of Biblical authority, this text offers an account of inspiration that focuses on the impact of the Biblical text upon the reader.